Barack Obama, speaking in Spanish, addresses Puerto Rico in advance of Sunday’s (!) primary.
** FROM THE MCCAIN INNER CIRCLE. Here’s an interview with my pal Steve Schmidt, senior advisor to Senator John McCain, on the campaign to come against Barack Obama.
** HASTA LA BYE BYE, HILL. Hillary Clinton is knocking back some shots with her journos — she won’t do a press conference with them, mind you — and doing some sightseeing.
** TEXAS DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN AND SPOUSE BACK OBAMA. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie, and his Democratic National Committee member wife Betty, this morning announced their superdelegate votes for Barack Obama. NWN was the first media outlet to report that Obama won the overall Texas contest in March. While Hillary Clinton narrowly won the primary, 51% to 48%, Obama won the caucuses that night, at which a record-shattering one million-plus voters participated, 59% to 41%.
** HILLARY FACES DEFEAT AT SATURDAY’S D.N.C. RULES COMMITTEE MEETING. Hillary Clinton has hinged her flickering hopes for the nomination on tomorrow’s DNC rules committee meeting, where she hopes that party officials will overturn the rules and seat the delegations she “won” in illegitimate primaries staged in Michigan and Florida. It’s not going to happen, as you see in this Huffington Post report.
** CALIFORNIA LOVES OBAMA. Despite the fact that he lost the February primary to Hillary Clinton, California Democrats now favor Barack Obama over Clinton, 51% to 38%, according to the new Field Poll. Obama leads John McCain in the Golden State by a whopping 17 points. Much as was the case last week in the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll. It may just be, incidentally, that launching one’s political career as an official of the Mitt Romney and McCain campaigns is not the ticket to the governorship of California …
** MY NEW PODCAST. The road ahead.
** WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
Barack Obama is in Great Falls, Montana.
John McCain is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hillary Clinton is in Puerto Rico.
Bill Clinton is in South Dakota.
** SCHWARZENEGGER LIVE WEBCAST THIS MORNING. Back from Mexico City — and I’ll have more on that trip later — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger holds a press conference this morning in the LA area community of Pacoima to announce $463 million in new allocations for construction and modernization at charter schools around California. Schwarzenegger will make the announcement at the Vaughn International Studies Academy. As many readers will recall, Schwarzenegger championed the successful passage of $42 billion in new infrastructure bonds in the 2006 general election. Now the money is beginning to be allocated, as you will see in the 10:15 AM event webcast live on www.gov.ca.gov.
** THE OTHER BIG PROBLEM WITH HILLARY’S NOTORIOUS REMARKS. I explain the OTHER big problem with Hillary Clinton’s notorious Friday afternoon remarks, on my other blog. (Not the RFK assassination reference, but her false claim that Bill Clinton’s 1992 nomination was in any doubt in June. As you’ll see, the Clinton high command knew in May that the fight was effectively over.)
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel. You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, which I know as a former DemRussia advisor, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND U.S. ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Crude oil is trading in the $127 to $128 per barrel range.
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You can always fill up on water in the city parks. So long as those are open …
>Sacramento Solon:
Bill Bradley:
Clearly, that is an extraordinary indulgence …
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You’re right. Both bread and cereal are now stricken from the shopping list. Milk will be next, followed by…
May 30, 2008 – 11:59 am
Paper or plastic?
>Brasky:
Food prices are outrageous. And everything else is going up too. Dow Chemical just announced a major price increase for their industrial customers – anything plastic or that uses pesticides is going to have another price increase.
The whole country is sliding into a Carter-like malaise and all the Republicans can talk about are millionaire tax breaks and frequent flyer miles to Iraq. These guys are seriously out of step with reality.
May 30, 2008 – 12:01 pm
“Or, as a certain senator from the Eastern seaboard put it, ‘Si se pueda.’”
Anyone who has done 5 minutes of organizing outside of the Rust Belt knows that chant. It’s Spanish “1,2,3,4, what are we fighting for?” of our times.
Jesus that was bad – I blame it on the low oxygen content of The Bubble.
“Paper or plastic?”
Well, if California goes the way of San Francisco, I might not get the choice anymore.
Yes. Incidentally, Ace Smith — who didn’t have Jerry Brown telling him what to do — thought it was most unfair of me to point out that Hillary had blown the line.
Paper, I presume.
>Brasky:
“Paper or plastic?”
Well, if California goes the way of San Francisco, I might not get the choice anymore.
May 30, 2008 – 12:08 pm
“TEXAS DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN AND SPOUSE BACK OBAMA”
I’ve been on the Texas Democratic Party email list since the election (had to sign up to get live updates of the counts). The party down there has been ecstatic to have Obama in this thing — they have seen a massive increase in members and activity. Obama is getting new voters registered and is getting some “underperformers” back into politics.
Obama is the best thing to happen to the Texas Democrats since LBJ.
“Yes. Incidentally, Ace Smith — who didn’t have Jerry Brown telling him what to do — thought it was most unfair of me to point out that Hillary had blown the line.”
I bet you could have heard that phrase any of a dozen times chanted on the Capitol lawn this week. It has been ubiquitous in the labor movement since the 1970s.
“Hillary Clinton is knocking back some shots with her journos – she won’t do a press conference with them, mind you – and doing some sightseeing. ”
Hillary does a poor job at faking McCain-like banter with reporters. She put herself in a Nixonian bubble long ago and still hasn’t come out for air.
Here’s the Howard Jarvis montage from Airplane: http://tinyurl.com/67mrfn
It’s poorly spliced together, so you lose the sense of time that occurs between takes. The running meter gag was pretty good, as is his last line.
Thanks for the glimpse of Howard Jarvis the actor.
Actually, I think she’s quite believable downing shots.
>Brasky:
“Hillary Clinton is knocking back some shots with her journos – she won’t do a press conference with them, mind you – and doing some sightseeing. ”
Hillary does a poor job at faking McCain-like banter with reporters. She put herself in a Nixonian bubble long ago and still hasn’t come out for air.
May 30, 2008 – 12:25 pm
Yeah, I’ve only heard the line about 9 million times …
>Brasky:
“Yes. Incidentally, Ace Smith — who didn’t have Jerry Brown telling him what to do — thought it was most unfair of me to point out that Hillary had blown the line.”
I bet you could have heard that phrase any of a dozen times chanted on the Capitol lawn this week. It has been ubiquitous in the labor movement since the 1970s.
May 30, 2008 – 12:18 pm
Not much chatter on McClellan today…so let me weigh in. The occupants of the White House are “puzzled.” He’s not the “Scotty we used to know.” Why not resign if it were so bad? Why put it out now and not wait until February (he has to know this might effect the election)? He wasn’t “in the room” when the decisions were being made. blah blah blah
Still waiting for someone to say it ain’t so.
Fact is, here’s a guy who had proximity. He was in as good a position as anyone to watch what was going on. And maybe after they stabbed him in the back, the scales fell off of his eyes and he could finally see the bigger picture.
An interesting take on the book comes from Peggy Noonan (of all people) in the WSJ today: “when I finished the book, I came out not admiring Mr. McClellan or liking him but, in terms of the larger arguments, believing him….what he says may be inconvenient, and it may be painful, but that’s not what matters. What matters is if it’s true.”
Various responses than I’m off for the afternoon…
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Bill Bradley:
I’ve never heard of this bread
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Grateful Bread is produced in Sacramento. I would doubt it is sold outside of the immediate area. While costly even in the best of times, they produce high quality breads mostly using organically grown wheat.
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Braksy scribed:
Sacto – I feel your pain. We used to but Greatfull bread, but the price got too high months ago. I’m on Truckee Sourdough and TJ’s Honey Wheat
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I hate large supermarkets and just don’t venture to them often. I’ve found the stuff I truly enjoy costs me no more, and sometimes less, at the small little market I shop at. The flip of that is limited slection of some products…bread be one of them. Besides Grateful, and some commerical stuff I won’t touch, my choices are Acme or Village. Both are wonderful breads, but no less expensive than GB.
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Yes, this is all poltical. And I agee with Chris M…times they be a changing. So do buy local and seasonal…it’s better for you and for the area you live in.
Chris, not so sure about getting a bike. Haven’t been on one in years. However, do own a 2000 Camry with less than 28,000 and walk whenever I can.
Sacto – good for you man!
I buy local produce – but we go thru so much bread at my house (one to two loafs a week) that Grateful Bread just isn’t within reach anymore.
I do still get their dinner rolls for the holidays though – delicious.
One thing I brought back from my travels is a true appreciation of good bread – especially anything with a crust that crunches. Oh man, time to eat!
“Yeah, I’ve only heard the line about 9 million times …”
That was probably just one rally!
That’s pretty funny.
Obama’s Spanish is letter perfect. Might we have a brilliant President, for a change?
Your podcast is brilliant. Do you work from a script?
Has anyone seen Sex and The City yet? I am waiting for a good review.
Nope.
I will see the movie later.
Thanks. No. I work from lying down on my sofa …
>marcus waldron:
Your podcast is brilliant. Do you work from a script?
May 30, 2008 – 2:00 pm
Perhaps.
>Capitol Boy:
Obama’s Spanish is letter perfect. Might we have a brilliant President, for a change?
May 30, 2008 – 1:34 pm
It is probably the most persistent chant in my life …
>Brasky:
“Yeah, I’ve only heard the line about 9 million times …”
That was probably just one rally!
May 30, 2008 – 1:07 pm
Ah hah.
>Sacramento Solon:
Various responses than I’m off for the afternoon…
Mr. B…
It was true…just back. Spent the afternoon volunteering for an event I participating in on Sunday…5 & 10 K.
Bet you thought I was out getting hammered, didn’t you???
The Kid family is facing the same rising costs of food and fuel, but has adopted a Republican approach — buying a commodities futures index fund. That way, your 401(k)account is selling bread, gasoline, natural gas, oil and other commodities to your household account. Since we do not buy a lot of copper and gold, we net out positive.
Trust the market Luke…
Thank you, Mr. Kid.
So much for concerns that Obama isn’t tough enough. He was delicate–and he needed to be– as he took down the Democratic front-runner, but he continues to show that he is more willing and able to take the fight to the Reeps than any serious Democratic presidential candidate in recent years this side of Howard Dean.
How about this move?
http://tinyurl.com/4hwwgv
A massive rally Tuesday night at the site of the Reep convention! I love it.
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